Microsoft Reactor Sydney

This is a 3rd party event organised by members of our community.

In the evolving landscape of AI, Generative AI (GenAI) and Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are emerging as a powerful duo, transforming how machines understand, generate, and reason with information. This meetup explores the seamless integration of structured knowledge from graphs with the creativity and adaptability of GenAI, unlocking new possibilities for intelligent applications.

The agenda of the evening would be:

• 5pm: doors open
• 5.30pm: announcements and welcome
• 5.40pm: 1st Talk
• 6.10pm: 2nd Talk
• 6:40pm: Networking
• 7.10pm: doors close

Speakers: To be announced shortly
Whether you're new to graph technology or an experienced user, this meetup is the perfect opportunity to learn, network, and explore the potential of GraphDB. Let's start the year by building connections—both in data and in community!

In this new era of AI agents and nascent robotics interactions, creating truly engaging and intelligent experiences requires real-time, low-latency communication, adaptive behavior, and seamless multimodal integration across text, speech, and vision. The GPT-4o real-time API in Azure OpenAI Service unlocks new possibilities for robotics developers, enabling robots to process natural language and speech, interpret images and context, and generate dynamic responses with minimal latency.

This session dives into crafting AI experiences that feel truly alive across both physical and virtual environments. Attendees will explore how to infuse AI with personality, speech, animations, and facial expressions—transforming it into an interactive agent capable of engaging its surroundings with dynamic, lifelike qualities. Additionally, we'll discuss using virtual 3D bodies as a test bed for robotics applications.

In this talk, we’ll explore how real-time capabilities can power interactive backends for robotic and immersive applications, highlighting both their strengths and limitations. We’ll discuss the challenges encountered along the way, the feasibility of using this technology today, and whether it meets the demands of real-world applications or still needs additional capabilities.

Through live demos and practical examples, you’ll see how AI combined with 3D embodiments can revolutionize entertainment, education, customer service, and beyond. Whether you’re an AI engineer, innovator looking to push the boundaries of human-AI interaction, or a roboticist interested in bringing robots to life with LLMs, this session will provide actionable insights to take your projects to the next level.

We'll cover two technology stacks:

Three.js, React, Ready Player Me, Blender, Azure GPT-4o Realtime API
Unity, SALSA LipSync Suite, Eleven Labs Text-to-Speech, Ready Player Me

Join us to discover how Azure OpenAI is shaping the future of real-time, interactive AI experiences!

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Explore concepts and methodologies for evaluating generative AI applications. Through code-first exercises and real-world scenarios, you'll learn to analyze and assess output quality, evaluate output using custom evaluators, and generate synthetic datasets.

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